Are there any styleguides, recommendations, best practices how to order items within a context menu? They question is about classic context menus, but I'm also interested in stuff about radial or more ...

I manage a large Windows desktop application, which is the 'back office' of an EPOS system. There are many screens which allow the user to search through collections of objects, for example orders or ...

I'm working on a scheduling UI that has some actions that I would like to map to mouse-based shortcuts (all functions can be manually performed outside of the shortcuts, as well).
An example of part ...

A few weeks ago, I read a blog post about a way to reduce clicks/touches when selecting items from expandable menus:
The most common behavior is touching an icon to open some menu, and touch again on ...

Looking for a pattern name for an action menu that can be opened after input. Visual Studio has this when you for example change a name and you get visual indicator that you can press Ctrl + . to open ...

We have a suite of web applications that use 3 levels of menus – that last being context sensitive. The context sensitive menu is currently inside a concertina menu control, but I want to find out if ...

Would "save" and "unsave" make sense for the user to clearly make a piece of content in an app available for offline viewing? (Potentially the use of a star alone will be used instead of a word but ...

I was using my IE 10 when I right-clicked a link and its context menu showed up, I saw the first option was "Open Link". First thing that came to my mind was "What a useless option!". Since if I would ...

Here is a question I've been trying to find an answer to for 20 years:
Why don't modern operating systems (e.g. MS-Windows, OS/X) still use the intuitive and space saving right-click 'pop-down' menu ...

Apparently, some time ago Android decided to be even more like iOS by ditching the physical menu button on all new devices in favour of an ActionBar showing menu items, just like the navigation bar on ...

Preview I got so far of both Navigation Bars
First I'll show the preview of what I got so far. I'm trying to find an equilibrium in the page I'm slowly developing (an online university). I'm showing ...

Considered we have a use case where the product technology doesn't allow edits of the same record at the same time (for example different users might be want to editing different parts of a customer ...

I'm working on scientific software. The users are engineers and physicists, not consumers.
It's a non-web, Windows app. The client is Java Swing.
It has an Edit menu with the usual clipboard actions ...

I have a user interface that provides two alternatives for one action. The alternatives describe how the chosen action should be performed by the computer (different goal functions or heuristics of an ...

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I'm working on an application that runs in browsers. This application displays several windows (the user can open and close them), in which multiple things are displayed : charts, grids, ...

We have created a fruits and vegetables game for children where they have to choose the correct vegetable in a grid of vegetables.
This is a web based game. In this game, we have a logo at the top of ...

I'm building a photo site that must allow users to manage thousands of photos via paged thumbnails on a big desktop. I also want to offer a touch interface that is both usable and delightful on the ...

Is this a good idea to hide the cursor, or maybe constrain its move to a vertical move, when the user has invoked a context menu?
A context menu is basically unidimensional, so it makes sense to drop ...

I have a UI view with a number of widgets (at the moment 8, but there may come more, e.g. a total of 15) the user can hide or display individually through a context menu.
The typical context menu UI ...

The web application I am building has a custom right-click menu. I'm concerned that the user might not find this menu as normally right-clicking will only display the default browser's menu. Is there ...